A reproduction of a photographic portrait of Joseph Beuys
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The artist is standing, taking a step with his right foot forward, towards the camera. He is wearing a gray hat with a dark band, a white jacket or shirt with multiple pockets on the front, dark trousers and boots, a bag is draped across his chest from his left shoulder, he wears a watch on his left wrist. He is standing on a stone pavement. The background is a wall heavily mottled in black with a door in the center. The words “Joseph Beuys, La rivoluzione siamo noi 23/110 are inscribed in the lower right corner.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.254
People
Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Modern Art Agency, Naples
Published by Edition Tangente, Heidelberg
Title
La rivoluzione siamo Noi
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple, print
Date
1972
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219082

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Photo reproduction on polyester sheet
Dimensions
191 x 120 cm (75 3/16 x 47 1/4 in.)
framed: 203 x 106.5 x 3 cm (79 15/16 x 41 15/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: at l.r.: Joseph Beuys

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
21 / 180 plus 18 a.p.
Standard Reference Number
Schellmann 49, p. 85

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.254
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

Verification Level

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